Amy Howard
Classroom Management
EPI-0001
Lesson Plan: Affective Domain
October 10, 2011


Topic
Life Plan

Grade/Subject/Academic Level
9th grade / Language Arts / English Skills I

Time
1 week

Springboard/Warm-up Activity
Project an array of pictures of known people who are ~30 years old (celebrities, teachers, etc.) Daily writing prompt on the board: “Describe yourself as you’d like to be at the age of 30. Include family, vehicle, home, work, and play.” Each student has a computer, and they type their answer on a new Word document, saved as “[Name] 30 Profile” in the class folder on the school server. After three minutes, have students share for two more minutes. [KNOWLEDGE/RECEIVING]

Sunshine State Standards and Learning Outcomes
  • Students will synthesize a personal future from a variety of informational sources.

SSS LA 9-12
  • Select, use, and monitor own reading strategies to construct meaning from a range of literary, informational, and technical texts.
  • Select and use effective writing process strategies and vocabulary appropriate to varied audiences and types of information being communicated.
  • Select and use appropriate speaking, listening, and viewing strategies to clarify and interpret meaning in formal and informal discussions and presentations.
  • Demonstrate use of appropriate language for effective oral and written communication.
  • Select and use varied media to retrieve, verify, and understand information.

Topic Outline with Teacher Activities and Questioning
  1. Q: “Do you have power over whether you get what you want?” [COMPREHENSION/RESPONDING]
  2. Q: “What can you do to have more power to get what you want?” Students discuss. Guide toward job, salary, and plan. [COMPREHENSION/RESPONDING]
  3. “We are going to spend this week making a life plan.”

Student Participation—Guided Practice
  1. All computers have the following links on the desktop:
    1. Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
    2. IRS Federal Withholding tax table: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15.pdf
    3. Mortgage Calculator.org: http://www.mortgagecalculator.org/
    4. Zillow real estate: http://www.zillow.com/